internet pop psychology terms like "narcissist," "toxic," etc are a rly scary carceral identity based thinking - creates a "mental disorder" that just defines a person as "evil and always will be"
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Replying to @jdr____llc @arthur_affect
Did Trump or somebody pay you to write this tweet? Because this has the same kind of energy as those chuds that spew nonsense about cancer culture or that "TERF is a slur". There are just some bad people out there that can't change and never will, because they choose not to.
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Replying to @Zulnahdwiin @jdr____llc
If you believe the problem is indeed that they "choose not to" change then that's a reason to avoid medicalized terminology, especially because there are people who very much use it in this eugenic sense of identifying people diseased from birth
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Replying to @arthur_affect @jdr____llc
I'm beginning to understand why the right thinks us lefties want to police all thought. All this pedantic nonsense and needless ethical agonizing is completely ridiculous on it's face. I see no advantage to pointing out how a word is used by worse people in a different context.
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Dude, Arthur is not “policing” anything, he’s having an opinion in public. It’s okay.
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People who really get heated up about "language policing" raise a lot of questions for me Like what, exactly, was so awesome about the word you were using that makes you so unwilling to give it up What is the function it's performing that you find so useful
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I desire specificity. You act as if I use words without considering their meaning. I wouldn't call you a dumbass just because I disagree with you, because you're obviously very intelligent. A bit of an obnoxious windbag, though, given how you like to talk over people.
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The "specificity" of the term "narcissist" is something that I find very dangerous It is precisely because of its implied "specificity" that it grown way beyond just meaning "a jerk" into this Theory of Human Nature shit
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I've completely lost the thread on whatever it is you're talking about and I'm starting to think you're not entirely sane.
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OP says the word "narcissist" is bad because it has a lot of implications about how you see the world and human nature that go beyond the person you're attacking You are denying this, and I am disagreeing with your denial
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The word "narcissist" is not a good word, any more than the R-word for developmental disability is a good word to cruelly insult someone who makes bad decisions or has bad judgment
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